Terms Used In Alabama Code 32-6-541

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

The net proceeds of the additional revenues derived from sales of the distinctive plates, less administrative costs including the costs of production of the plates incurred by the Revenue Department, shall be distributed by each judge of probate or license commissioner to the state Comptroller for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998. The first two thousand dollars ($2,000) received by the state Comptroller shall be used to satisfy the appropriation specified in Section 4 of Act 97-469. Thereafter, the state Comptroller shall distribute thirty-one dollars ($31) per tag monthly to the Alabama Cotton Producers and four dollars ($4) per tag to the Southern/Southeastern Cotton Growers and Ginners Association. The Alabama Cotton Commission and the Southern/Southeastern Cotton Growers and Ginners Association shall use these funds for the promotion of the production, distribution, improvement, marketing, use, and sale of cotton as authorized by Amendment 388 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901.